Stefanik Demands Postal Service Investigate ‘Targeted Theft’ of Campaign Donations
3rd December 2022
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) is demanding an investigation into the “repeated, targeted theft” of campaign donation checks while in transit through the United States Postal Service.
“It is unacceptable that USPS has repeatedly allowed these targeted thefts to occur,” Stefanik’s attorneys wrote in a letter Thursday to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. They allege packages were “ripped open” and checks “stolen” totaling nearly $20,000.
The attorneys claim the postal service’s Office of the Inspector General said it would be hard to find guilty employees “unless and until” a donor “becomes the victim” of identity theft or fraud.
“In each case, the evidence indicates that Elise for Congress’s packages were plundered by a USPS employee or contractor while the packages were in transit,” the letter said, adding there were four separate incidents between June and November.
Stefanik’s campaign released pictures Friday showing ripped envelopes with apology letters from the USPS.
Scott Adams says that he had to quit mailing his cartoon art to his syndicate because postal employees would open his packages and steal the artwork before it got to its destination.
I always use UPS now.